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One of the features of
Contract Express
 is the ability to track clauses that occur in generated documents. This is particularly useful in certain industries (e.g. insurance) where companies wish to monitor their exposure not only to the types of contracts that have been issued but also on a clause-by-clause basis within those contracts. When joined with a claims system there is the potential to gauge the profit/loss of individual clauses.
This is facilitated by adding a reference to a span, specifically those that represent the notional concept of a clause. Whenever a document is generated
Contract Express
 records in its database the references of all spans that have been included in that document.
For example, a home insurance template might have an optional clause that covers freezer contents.
[
FreezerContentsRequired Reference
FreezerContents
13.5 Freezer Contents
... ]
Any document generated from this template with
FreezerContentsRequired
=
true
 will also record
FreezerContents
 as one of its tracked clauses. Conversely, any document generated with
FreezerContentsRequired
=
false
 will not have tracked the clause.
Even unconditional clauses could be given a reference for tracking purposes, because in a future version of the template they might become conditional.
[
Reference Cash
13.10 Cash to the value of {CashUpperLimit}
... ]

See Also

Conditional spans

This article applies to:

  • Product: Contract Express